Thread: Telnet in OSX
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EDS66
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Join Date: May 2004
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2004-05-27, 23:04

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Originally Posted by n2nrn
Thanks. I new it had to be something that easy. "telnet>?" told me all I need to know. Gonna go play now.
n2nrn
Remember that you can use Telnet to test other services. You can telnet to port 25 and talk to smtp servers; to port 80 and talk to web servers. Telnet/nslookup/ping comprise 80 percent of all the network troubleshooting I do.

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